When the alarm went off at 5am, I wasn't sure where I was. I mean, I knew I was in bed, but I was on the wrong side of the bed, and why was I awake when it's still dark outside? After a few seconds, my brain finished booting up and I remembered that I am in Vancouver, I sleep on the wrong side o...

As someone who spent many an hour in libraries as a youth as well as present day AND as someone who is married to a librarian ... I'd like to say thank you. I don't know what I would have done with my life had I not been enthralled by all that came from my local libraries.
I'm happy and proud to live in Ohio which boasts some of the best libraries in the country and I'm even more proud that my wife is a librarian.

I was recently invited to participate in an awesome literacy project, and I wanted to share an excerpt from my contribution: I want to take a moment and say thank you to librarians, because it was a librarian who made me fall in love with reading. In third or fourth grade, part of our curriculu...